BY CHARLES M. BARTHOLOMEW Post-Tribune correspondent
PORTAGE -- Heading down Hallway B at Portage High School West earlier this month, you might have imagined the shop room was hosting an exercise class for droids, based on the motor noise coming from it.
Instead, the room was site of the four-day summer Robotics Camp, where students were working the glitches out of their creations before they put the machines to the test in competition.
The all-day camp, begun in 2006, is designed to give up to two dozen fifth- through eighth-graders instruction in basic physics and electronics, with which they can design and build their own robots from computerized kits.
The camp has grown every year and enthusiasm among the participants is as great as ever, according to business teacher Bryan Lochmondy.
"We have nine students in the beginner's section and twelve in the advanced class," he said. Only 18, all beginners, registered the first year
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